One of the most curious cases of money being diverted from government coffers concerned the payment of grants to Equato-Guinean students studying overseas.

"Altogether, the Subcommittee was able to document payments in excess of US$4 million made by oil companies to support more than 100 Equato-Guinean students studying abroad, most of whom were the children or relatives of wealthy or powerful Equato-Guinean officials," the Investigations Subcommittee report said.

Riggs Bank, which has also been criticised for the way it handled several million dollars on behalf of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, was fined US$25 million in May by the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency for its failure to impose proper controls against money laundering.

The Senate Investigations Subcommittee hinted that the ruling elite in Equatorial Guinea was embezzling state oil revenues on a much bigger scale than its own inquiries had revealed.

The people of E. Guinea are starving and poor, and their leader and his son are being wined and dined by oil company execs. in Washington. And the oil companies RIPPED THEM OFF in paying for a LOT OF OIL that's located just offshore in E. Guinea.

They should be paid a lot more, and it should be going to help the lot of the people, not for the son of the president to buy 20 expensive suits on a shopping spree in Paris.

We MUST get a president in office who is not owned by/inextricably linked to the oil companies. They run the world; their power must be reined in.

"Iraq is free; let freedom reign"? Are you kidding me with this, Dubya? You should have said, "Iraq is free; Let the Oil Companies Reign!"

LegionVnv NationEnveloped in a sentiment,A sound that rushes over me.Engage an impulse to pretendI have a faith as pure.Not forgetting what it means to dream.Indulging everything.Entertaining thoughts that I've the strengthOf those I yearn to be.Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.Reckless thoughts survive.Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?Will I dream?I am too scared to close my eyes.For a second please hold me.None can change in me these things that I believe.But I don't know what happens now.I am too scared to close my eyes.

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